Dead Water
Nineteenth-century New Orleans is a blazing hotbed of scorching politics and personal vendettas. And it's into this fire that Benjamin January falls when he is hired to follow Oliver Weems, a bank official who has absconded with $100,000 in gold and securities. But it's more than just a job for January. The missing money is vital to the survival of the school for freed slaves that he and his wife Rose have founded. Following the suspected embezzler--and the money--onto the steamboat Silver Moon, January, Rose, and their friend Hannibal Sefton are sworn to secrecy about the crime until they can find the trunks containing the stolen loot. And t…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-553-90059-0
- EAN: 9780553900590
- Produktnummer: 15715632
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 700 KB
- Reihenbandnummer: 8
Über den Autor
BARBARA HAMBLY attended the University of California and spent a year at the University of Bordeaux, France, obtaining a master's degree in medieval history. She has worked as both a teacher and a technical editor, but her frist love has always been history. She is the author of A Free Man of Color, Fever Season, Graveyard Dust, Die Upon A Kiss, Sold Down the River, Wet Grave, and DAYS OF THE DEAD. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is at work on a major novel about Mary Todd Lincoln, THE EMANCIPATOR'S WIFE.
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